[Python-Dev] 2.2a1 patch from PyChecker (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 16:54:55 -0400

> (If others agree, we could give you checkin permission so you could check > in non-controversial fixes yourself.)

If that meant PyChecker would be a standard part of the Python distribution, I would be more than all for it ;)

That's a separate step -- but definitely worth considering. For now, I expect that PyChecker's release cycle is so much faster than Python's that it's better to keep the two separate, but maybe a year from now PyChecker has grown up enough to do this. (We could put a PyChecker snapshot in the Tools directory around release time, but that's not much use if it keeps changing.)

But I would like to point out that most modules have their own maintainer, and they may have good reasons to code like they do, so if Neal does get commit privs, he shouldn't start fixing bugs on his own anyway (unless, of course, they're clearly wrong.)

I'm sure Neal will know his limits. :-)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)